Two months in. This fortnight is about sustainability — not burning out on doing good, but building practices and systems that outlast your individual effort.
Week 7 — Build one habit that doesn't depend on you alone
The biggest risk for any individual practice is that it lives and dies with you. This week: embed one thing into a team structure so that it continues even when you are not in the room.
Corner One
This week's focus: make one boundary structural
Take one boundary you have been practising individually and try to make it structural. A meeting norm. A written policy. A team agreement. "We agree that cultural advisory work outside of job descriptions will be formally recognised and compensated." It does not have to be ratified this week — just proposed. Put it in writing. Send it to one person with decision-making power.
Reflection prompt
What boundary did you try to make structural? What was the response? What resistance came up?
Corner Two
This week's focus: teach what you have learned
Find one thing you have learned over the past six weeks — a concept, a script, a pattern — and teach it to one person. Not as an expert. As a peer. "I've been working through something since the workshop and I wanted to share it." Teaching consolidates learning and spreads the practice beyond you.
Reflection prompt
What did you teach? How did the other person receive it? What did teaching it show you about how well you understood it?
Corner Three
This week's focus: embed attribution into your team
You have been practising attribution individually for weeks. Now: propose it as a team norm. In a team meeting or in a message to your team: "I want to suggest we start naming ideas back to the people who had them. Not as a rule — as a habit." Soft proposal. See what happens. Some teams will take it. Some won't. The proposal itself shifts something.
Reflection prompt
Did you propose it? How was it received? What did the response tell you about your team's readiness?
Corner Four
This week's focus: find one other In-Between person
Find one other person in your organisation whose position is similarly complex — who holds more than one world, who doesn't fit cleanly into the available categories. You don't need to compare notes formally. Just recognise each other. That recognition, even unspoken, reduces isolation. If you can speak openly: share one thing from your Corner Four practice this month.
Reflection prompt
Did you find someone? What was it like to be recognised in your complexity? Or what is it like to still be looking?
Week 8 — Rest, review, and prepare for the final stretch
Week eight is a lighter week intentionally. You have been doing real work. This week: rest, review what you have built, and prepare for the final month.
Corner One
This week's focus: take stock of what you have protected
Look back at the past eight weeks. What have you protected? What have you said no to? What rest have you taken? What has that cost you — and what has it given you? You are building a new relationship with your own energy. This week: acknowledge that. Not to anyone else. Just to yourself.
Reflection prompt
What is one thing you have protected over the past two months that you would not have protected before the workshop?
Corner Two
This week's focus: measure your competence honestly
Look back at the questions you have answered yourself over the past eight weeks. The reading you have done. The times you showed up imperfectly and came back. What is your competence score now compared to Week 1? Be honest. Not about what you know — about how you engage. That is the shift that matters.
Reflection prompt
What do you know now that you didn't before? What do you do differently? What are you still frozen about — and is the freeze smaller than it was?
Corner Three
This week's focus: what have you actually changed?
Honest question, Week 8: what in your behaviour has actually changed? Not what you intend to change. Not what you have noticed. What have you done differently — consistently — that you were not doing eight weeks ago? Even one small thing, done consistently, is real change. Name it.
Reflection prompt
One concrete behaviour that is different. How often are you doing it? What response has it generated in the room?
Corner Four
This week's focus: what has become clearer?
Eight weeks in: is your position in the room clearer to you? Do you have more language for it? Has anything in how you navigate between worlds changed — even slightly? The goal was never to resolve your complexity. The goal was to give you a map for it. How good is the map now compared to eight weeks ago?
Reflection prompt
What has become clearer about your position? What is still murky? What do you wish the framework named more precisely?